Source Response

Source Response
There are liberal concerns in the upcoming cities, which held so much hope regarding the gains for any activity. The cities were becoming full of self-interests. The feelings of Theogony are a genealogy where there was personification of rivers, woods and hills. There is the issue of personality and lightening of idealism and liveliness with no trace to the source of rivers to any of the cities. The concerns of these authors depended on the crisis of the period on the construction of the polis and its various institutions resulting from the effects of the Peloponnesian War. So many ill came into the constructs of the Greek poleis and became the onset of their decay. Morality faced challenges of the changing tendencies of individual transformations regarding having lifestyles that are easy and pleasurable. The people who were in the war had a strong desire because they intended to enjoy .life to its fullest avoiding instances of any pain (Brendan and Stanley 5-210).
Further, the turbulence caused by the war created so many uncertainties in life and that strengthened the society’s hedonistic attitude. Another concern was the intensification of individualistic attitudes contrary to the former public concentration. These aspects minimized the functionality of polis and turned out to be great enemies and these authors had the concern for rehabilitating the old polis authority with efforts for reviving the old communal spirit and having the individual connected to the community. There are concerns of uplifting the cities by promoting morals and the improvement of Greek public life. The individuals were getting to the top without control with the Roman domination making things worse and all these situations leading to political helplessness.
Heseid concerns himself with the sickening inhuman ills in the poetry where the creation of the father meets immortal rivalry and adaptation to witchery without any instances of reflection of the consequences to morality. There is the myth of aversive sexuality and impatience insinuating no punishment and presentation of the innocent to the fate of fraud. He notes the disjoined times with prosperity amidst wickedness as he introduces the ages of the world having successive degree of corruption. There is the focus on the past times with communally spent times as an ideal construction of the society with this traversing into unfairness of individualism. With the sins that the world faced condemnation, the poetry produces preferences of invisible agencies for corrupt judgments such as favoring of one’s brothers. The continued irreligiousness, ungratefulness to gods and quarrelsomeness of the generation that values money more than anything else does. The concern about money regards the mode of acquisition with a clear indication for the need to work in gaining an earning instead of the connections to kinsfolk (Brendan and Stanley 5-210).
The poetry of Tytaeus is significant for urging the continuity of loyalty of the Spartans to the state on constitutionally divine providences through the cooperation of elders, kings and the society. The poetry were inspirational through the reminder of the times of their grandfathers and offering of weaponry advice and tactics. This was in line with Homeric instruction unlike the precepts of hoplite warfare at a time when the community was just learning the hoplite tactics. The poetry had a teleological affection the Spartan community helping in the creation of the ideals of championship and excellence for patriotism. It was the beginning for the creation of anticipation for the achievement of moral excellence.
Work Cited
Brendan, Nagle and Stanley, Burstein. The ancient world: Readings in social and cultural history. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. (2009): 5-210

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